Garuda Purana — Brahma Khanda — Chapter 15
GaP 3 15.1
श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- १५ श्रीकृष्ण उवाच । अथावता रान्पुरुषाख्यो हरिश्च गतो ध्यानं कर्तुमीशो महात्मा । प्रादुर्बभूवाखिलसद्गुणार्णवः स एव विष्णुः स च बीजभूतः
śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 15 śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca / athāvatā rānpuruṣākhyo hariśca gato dhyānaṃ kartumīśo mahātmā / prādurbabhūvākhilasadguṇārṇavaḥ sa eva viṣṇuḥ sa ca bījabhūtaḥ
Śrī Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 15. Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: Now, as for the descents — Hari, called Puruṣa, the Lord, the great Self, went to perform meditation, and he became manifest, an ocean of all good qualities; he himself is Viṣṇu, and he is the one who became the seed.
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GaP 3 15.2
यो बीजभूतः पुरुषाख्य विष्णुः स एवाभूद्वासुदेवो महात्मा । सृष्टिं कर्तुं पुरुषाख्यस्य वायोर्मायाख्यायां मूलरूपो यथाऽस
yo bījabhūtaḥ puruṣākhya viṣṇuḥ sa evābhūdvāsudevo mahātmā / sṛṣṭiṃ kartuṃ puruṣākhyasya vāyormāyākhyāyāṃ mūlarūpo yathā'sa
He who became the seed, Viṣṇu named Puruṣa, he himself became Vāsudeva, the great Self, in order to create — thus he was the root-form of the Puruṣa-named Vāyu, in her called Māyā.
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GaP 3 15.3
यो वासुदेवस्तु स एव जातः संकर्षणाख्यो खिलसद्गुणात्मा । सृष्टिं कर्तुं सूत्रभूतस्य वायोर्जयाख्यायं पूर्णसंवित्परात्मा
yo vāsudevastu sa eva jātaḥ saṃkarṣaṇākhyo khilasadguṇātmā / sṛṣṭiṃ kartuṃ sūtrabhūtasya vāyorjayākhyāyaṃ pūrṇasaṃvitparātmā
He who was Vāsudeva, he himself was born as the one named Saṃkarṣaṇa, whose self is all good qualities, in order to create the Vāyu who is the thread (sūtra), in her named Jayā — he, the supreme Self of full consciousness.
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GaP 3 15.4
स एवं संकर्षणनामधेयः प्रद्युम्ननामा च स एव विश्रुतः । सरस्वतीभारतीसर्जनार्थं स एव देव्या मूलरूपो बभूव
sa evaṃ saṃkarṣaṇanāmadheyaḥ pradyumnanāmā ca sa eva viśrutaḥ / sarasvatībhāratīsarjanārthaṃ sa eva devyā mūlarūpo babhūva
He who is thus named Saṃkarṣaṇa is likewise renowned by the name Pradyumna; for the bringing forth of Sarasvatī and Bhāratī, he himself became the root-form for the goddess.
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GaP 3 15.5
सृष्ट्वा युक्तं षोडशभिः कलाभिर्महत्तत्त्वं सूक्ष्मरूपं स एव । साहङ्कारं क्रीडयामास देवः शृणु त्वं वै षोडशाख्याः कलाश्च
sṛṣṭvā yuktaṃ ṣoḍaśabhiḥ kalābhirmahattattvaṃ sūkṣmarūpaṃ sa eva / sāhaṅkāraṃ krīḍayāmāsa devaḥ śṛṇu tvaṃ vai ṣoḍaśākhyāḥ kalāśca
Having created the great principle (mahat-tattva) in its subtle form, joined with the sixteen parts and with the ego, that very god made it play. Now hear the sixteen so-called parts.
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GaP 3 15.6
भूतानि कर्मेन्द्रियपञ्चकानि ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणीह तथा मनश्च । ततो बभूव ह्यनिरुद्धसंज्ञको जीवांश्च संगृह्य सुपूर्णशक्तिः
bhūtāni karmendriyapañcakāni jñānendriyāṇīha tathā manaśca / tato babhūva hyaniruddhasaṃjñako jīvāṃśca saṃgṛhya supūrṇaśaktiḥ
The elements, the five organs of action, likewise the organs of knowledge here, and the mind. Then, gathering up the living beings, there came into being the one named Aniruddha, of wholly complete power.
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GaP 3 15.7
सोयं विरिञ्च्यादिसमस्तदेवान् स्थूलेन देहेन ससर्ज नाथः । तथा स विष्णुः पुरुषाभिधस्तु सनत्कुमारत्वमवाप वीन्द्र
soyaṃ viriñcyādisamastadevān sthūlena dehena sasarja nāthaḥ / tathā sa viṣṇuḥ puruṣābhidhastu sanatkumāratvamavāpa vīndra
This same Lord created with a gross body all the gods beginning with Viriñci (Brahmā); and likewise that Viṣṇu called Puruṣa attained the state of Sanatkumāra, O lord of birds.
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GaP 3 15.8
अनन्यसाध्यं ब्रह्मचर्यं च कर्तुं दशेन्द्रियाणां शोषणार्थं सदैव । सनन्दनादौ पठितः कुमारस्तस्मान्नान्यो नात्र विचार्यमस्ति
ananyasādhyaṃ brahmacaryaṃ ca kartuṃ daśendriyāṇāṃ śoṣaṇārthaṃ sadaiva / sanandanādau paṭhitaḥ kumārastasmānnānyo nātra vicāryamasti
In order to practise the celibacy achievable by no other, and for the perpetual drying up of the ten senses — the Kumāra is recited among Sanandana and the rest; therefore he is no other, and there is nothing to be deliberated here.
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GaP 3 15.9
स एव विष्णुः सूकरत्वं ह्यवाप क्षोपणीमुद्धर्तुं दैत्यवपुर्निहन्तुम् । हिरण्याक्षं सज्जनानां खगेन्द्र तथा भूमेः स्थापनार्थं च देवः
sa eva viṣṇuḥ sūkaratvaṃ hyavāpa kṣopaṇīmuddhartuṃ daityavapurnihantum / hiraṇyākṣaṃ sajjanānāṃ khagendra tathā bhūmeḥ sthāpanārthaṃ ca devaḥ
That very Viṣṇu took on boarhood, to raise up the earth and to strike down the demon's body — Hiraṇyākṣa — for the sake of good people, O lord of birds, and to establish the earth, (so did) the god.
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GaP 3 15.10
ततो हरिर्मद्विदासत्वमापानृषेर्भार्यायां यामिन्यां यो महात्मा । तत्रावतारे पञ्चरात्रं समग्रमुपादेष्टुं नाप दानं स्वतन्त्रः
tato harirmadvidāsatvamāpānṛṣerbhāryāyāṃ yāminyāṃ yo mahātmā / tatrāvatāre pañcarātraṃ samagramupādeṣṭuṃ nāpa dānaṃ svatantraḥ
Then Hari, the great Self, attained the state of being a servant to those who know me (?), in Yāminī the wife of the sage; in that descent, though independent, he did not obtain the gift of teaching the whole Pañcarātra.
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GaP 3 15.11
स एव विष्णुः समभूद्ब्रदर्यां नारायणाख्यः शमलापहश्च । तपस्तप्तुं शिक्षयितुं त्वृषीणां तिरस्कर्तुं ह्यप्सरसां सहस्रम्
sa eva viṣṇuḥ samabhūdbradaryāṃ nārāyaṇākhyaḥ śamalāpahaśca / tapastaptuṃ śikṣayituṃ tvṛṣīṇāṃ tiraskartuṃ hyapsarasāṃ sahasram
That very Viṣṇu came to be in Badarī as the one named Nārāyaṇa, remover of impurity, in order to perform austerity, to instruct the sages, and to spurn the thousand apsarases.
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GaP 3 15.12
ततो हरिः कपिलत्वं ह्यवाप्य तिरोहितान्कालबलेन तत्त्वान् । चतुर्विशतिं संशयं चोद्धरिष्यन्नुपादिशच्चासुरये महात्मा
tato hariḥ kapilatvaṃ hyavāpya tirohitānkālabalena tattvān / caturviśatiṃ saṃśayaṃ coddhariṣyannupādiśaccāsuraye mahātmā
Then Hari, having attained the state of Kapila, in order to bring forth the twenty-four principles that had been hidden by the force of time, and to remove doubt, the great Self taught Āsuri.
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GaP 3 15.13
स एव दतः समभूद्रमेशोनसूयायामत्रिरूपः परात्मा । आन्वीक्षिकिं नाम सुतर्कविद्यामलर्कनाम्ने प्रददात्तां महात्मा
sa eva dataḥ samabhūdrameśonasūyāyāmatrirūpaḥ parātmā / ānvīkṣikiṃ nāma sutarkavidyāmalarkanāmne pradadāttāṃ mahātmā
He himself, the lord of Ramā, the supreme Self, became Datta (Dattātreya) in Anasūyā, in the form of Atri('s son); and the great Self bestowed on the one named Alarka the fine science of reasoning called Ānvīkṣikī.
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GaP 3 15.14
स एव वंशेप्यभवद्रवेश्च आकूत्यां यः सच्चिदानन्दरूपः । स्वायंभुवं यत्तु मन्वन्तरं च देवैः साकं पालयामास वीन्द्र
sa eva vaṃśepyabhavadraveśca ākūtyāṃ yaḥ saccidānandarūpaḥ / svāyaṃbhuvaṃ yattu manvantaraṃ ca devaiḥ sākaṃ pālayāmāsa vīndra
He too was born in the lineage of Ruci, from Ākūti — he whose form is being, consciousness and bliss; and he, together with the gods, protected the Svāyambhuva manvantara, O lord of birds.
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GaP 3 15.15
स एव विष्णुः स उरुक्रमोभूदाग्नीध्रपुत्र्यां मेरुदेव्यां च नाभेः । विद्यारतानां मानिनां सर्वदैवमत्याश्चर्यं दर्शयितुं च वीन्द्र
sa eva viṣṇuḥ sa urukramobhūdāgnīdhraputryāṃ merudevyāṃ ca nābheḥ / vidyāratānāṃ mānināṃ sarvadaivamatyāścaryaṃ darśayituṃ ca vīndra
That very Viṣṇu became Urukrama (Ṛṣabha), (born) of Nābhi and Merudevī, the daughter of Āgnīdhra, in order to show the utmost wonder, ever and always, to the proud ones devoted to learning, O lord of birds.
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GaP 3 15.16
ततो हरिर्जगृहे कूर्मरूपं सुरासुराणामुदधिं विमथ्नताम् । पृष्ठे धर्तुं मन्दरं पर्वतं च ब्रह्माण्डं वा धर्तुमीशो महात्मा
tato harirjagṛhe kūrmarūpaṃ surāsurāṇāmudadhiṃ vimathnatām / pṛṣṭhe dhartuṃ mandaraṃ parvataṃ ca brahmāṇḍaṃ vā dhartumīśo mahātmā
Then Hari took on the form of a tortoise, to bear upon his back Mount Mandara while the gods and demons were churning the ocean — the Lord, the great Self, who could as well bear the whole cosmic egg.
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GaP 3 15.17
ततो हरिः प्रादुरभून्महात्मा धन्वन्तरिर्नाम हरिन्मणिद्युतिः । अपथ्यदोषान्परिहर्तुमेव हस्ते गृहीत्वा पूर्णकुभं सुधाभिः
tato hariḥ prādurabhūnmahātmā dhanvantarirnāma harinmaṇidyutiḥ / apathyadoṣānparihartumeva haste gṛhītvā pūrṇakubhaṃ sudhābhiḥ
Then the great-souled Hari appeared, Dhanvantari by name, with the radiance of an emerald, having taken in his hand a jar full of nectar, precisely in order to remove the disorders caused by unwholesome food.
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GaP 3 15.18
ततो हरिर्जगृहे श्रीवपुश्च यन्मोहिनीति प्रवदन्ति लोके । उद्वृत्तानां दितिजानां महात्मा सम्यक्तेषां वञ्चयितुं हरिर्बलम्
tato harirjagṛhe śrīvapuśca yanmohinīti pravadanti loke / udvṛttānāṃ ditijānāṃ mahātmā samyakteṣāṃ vañcayituṃ harirbalam
Then Hari, the great-souled one, took on a beautiful female form, which people in the world call Mohinī, in order thoroughly to deceive the strength of those insolent sons of Diti.
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GaP 3 15.19
ततो हरिः प्रादुरभून्महात्मा नृसिंहनामा भगवाननन्तः । दैत्यो हिरण्यकशिपुश्च तथोरुदेशे संस्थापितः करजैर्दारितश्च
tato hariḥ prādurabhūnmahātmā nṛsiṃhanāmā bhagavānanantaḥ / daityo hiraṇyakaśipuśca tathorudeśe saṃsthāpitaḥ karajairdāritaśca
Then the great-souled Hari appeared, the endless Lord named Narasiṃha; and the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu was placed upon (his) thighs and torn apart by (his) claws.
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GaP 3 15.20
ततो हरिर्भगवान्वामनोभूददित्यां वै कश्यपाद्दवदेवः । इन्द्रायेदं दातुकामः खगेन्द्र तदर्थं वै पावितुं सोवितुं च
tato harirbhagavānvāmanobhūdadityāṃ vai kaśyapāddavadevaḥ / indrāyedaṃ dātukāmaḥ khagendra tadarthaṃ vai pāvituṃ sovituṃ ca
Then the Lord Hari, the god, became Vāmana, from Kaśyapa in Aditi, wishing to give this (world) to Indra, O lord of birds — for that purpose, indeed, to purify and to protect (it).
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GaP 3 15.21
ततो हरिर्जमदग्नेः सुतोभूल्लोके सर्वे पर्शुरामं वदन्ति । ब्रह्मद्विषां क्षत्रियाणां च वीन्द्र भूमिं निः क्षत्रां कर्तुकामो महेशः
tato harirjamadagneḥ sutobhūlloke sarve parśurāmaṃ vadanti / brahmadviṣāṃ kṣatriyāṇāṃ ca vīndra bhūmiṃ niḥ kṣatrāṃ kartukāmo maheśaḥ
Then Hari became the son of Jamadagni — all in the world call him Paraśurāma — the great Lord, O lord of birds, wishing to make the earth free of kṣatriyas, of those kṣatriyas who hated brahmins.
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GaP 3 15.22
ततोभवद्व्यासरूपी स विष्णुश्चतुर्वारं राघवास्यापि पूर्णः । पराशरात्सत्यवत्यां बभूव पैलादिभिर्वेदभागांश्च कर्तुम्
tatobhavadvyāsarūpī sa viṣṇuścaturvāraṃ rāghavāsyāpi pūrṇaḥ / parāśarātsatyavatyāṃ babhūva pailādibhirvedabhāgāṃśca kartum
Then that Viṣṇu, in the form of Vyāsa, came to be — four times, and (once) as Rāghava too, in fullness — born of Parāśara in Satyavatī, in order to make the divisions of the Veda with Paila and the others.
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GaP 3 15.23
ततो हरी रघुवंशेवतीर्णः कौसल्यायां राघवः सूर्यवंशे । समुद्रादोर्विग्रहं कर्तुमीशो हं तुं भूम्यां रावणादींश्च वीन्द्र
tato harī raghuvaṃśevatīrṇaḥ kausalyāyāṃ rāghavaḥ sūryavaṃśe / samudrādorvigrahaṃ kartumīśo haṃ tuṃ bhūmyāṃ rāvaṇādīṃśca vīndra
Then Hari descended into the Raghu lineage, born of Kausalyā as Rāghava in the solar line, the Lord able to make war upon the ocean and the rest, and to slay Rāvaṇa and the others on earth, O lord of birds.
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GaP 3 15.24
ततो हरिर्व्यासरूपी बभूव अष्टाविंशे द्वपरे ज्ञानरूपी । पराशरात्सत्यवत्यां महात्मा स्वयं वेदान् संविभक्तुं च देवः
tato harirvyāsarūpī babhūva aṣṭāviṃśe dvapare jñānarūpī / parāśarātsatyavatyāṃ mahātmā svayaṃ vedān saṃvibhaktuṃ ca devaḥ
Then Hari became one in the form of Vyāsa, in the twenty-eighth Dvāpara, in the form of knowledge, the great-souled god (born) of Parāśara in Satyavatī, himself in order to divide the Vedas.
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GaP 3 15.25
ततो हरिः कृष्णरूपी बभूव देवक्यां वै वसुदेवात्स विष्णुः । कंसादीन्वै नितरां हन्तुकामः सम्यक्पातुं पाण्डवांश्चापि वीन्द्र
tato hariḥ kṛṣṇarūpī babhūva devakyāṃ vai vasudevātsa viṣṇuḥ / kaṃsādīnvai nitarāṃ hantukāmaḥ samyakpātuṃ pāṇḍavāṃścāpi vīndra
Then Hari took the form of Kṛṣṇa; that Viṣṇu (was born) of Vasudeva in Devakī, wishing utterly to slay Kaṃsa and the rest, and fully to protect the Pāṇḍavas too, O lord of birds.
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GaP 3 15.26
ततः कलौ संप्रवृत्ते हरिस्तु संमोहनार्थं चासुराणां खगेन्द्र । नाम्ना बुद्धो कीकटेषु प्रजातो वेदप्रमाणं निराकर्तुमेव
tataḥ kalau saṃpravṛtte haristu saṃmohanārthaṃ cāsurāṇāṃ khagendra / nāmnā buddho kīkaṭeṣu prajāto vedapramāṇaṃ nirākartumeva
Then, when the Kali age had set in, Hari, in order to bewilder the demons, O lord of birds, was born among the Kīkaṭas under the name Buddha, precisely to reject the authority of the Veda.
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GaP 3 15.27
ततो हरिः कल्किसंज्ञश्च वीन्द्र उत्पत्स्यते युगयोर्मध्यसंधौ । दस्युप्रायान्भूमिपान्वै निहन्तुं नाम्ना हरिर्विष्णुगुप्तस्य गेहे
tato hariḥ kalkisaṃjñaśca vīndra utpatsyate yugayormadhyasaṃdhau / dasyuprāyānbhūmipānvai nihantuṃ nāmnā harirviṣṇuguptasya gehe
Then Hari, called Kalki, O lord of birds, will arise at the juncture between two ages, to slay the rulers of the earth who are little better than bandits — Hari, in the house of one named Viṣṇugupta.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 3 15.28
केशवाद्याश्चतुर्विंशतिर्वै संकर्षणादयः । विश्वादय सहस्रं च पराद्या अमिताः स्मृताः
keśavādyāścaturviṃśatirvai saṃkarṣaṇādayaḥ / viśvādaya sahasraṃ ca parādyā amitāḥ smṛtāḥ
The twenty-four beginning with Keśava, and those beginning with Saṃkarṣaṇa; the thousand beginning with Viśva; and those beginning with Para are recorded as unlimited.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 3 15.29
अवतारा ह्यसंख्याता विष्णोर्नारायणस्य च । स्वयं नारायणास्ते ते नाणुमात्रं विभिद्यते
avatārā hyasaṃkhyātā viṣṇornārāyaṇasya ca / svayaṃ nārāyaṇāste te nāṇumātraṃ vibhidyate
The incarnations of Viṣṇu and of Nārāyaṇa are indeed innumerable; they are Nārāyaṇa himself, and are not differentiated (from him) by so much as an atom.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 3 15.30
बलतोरूपतश्चापि गुणतश्च कथञ्चन । अनन्तोनन्तगुणतः पूर्णो विष्णुर्न चान्यथा
balatorūpataścāpi guṇataśca kathañcana / anantonantaguṇataḥ pūrṇo viṣṇurna cānyathā
Not in strength, nor in form, nor in quality, in any way whatever: Viṣṇu is endless, complete through endless qualities, and not otherwise.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition